Tiro 8 is Out

The eighth issue of Tiro is out now with 10 new articles about professional reporting and transcription! The themes of the issue include a Hansard user survey; reporting minority languages in an [...]

EDITORIAL Eero Voutilainen:Reporting the World Through Another Person’s Eyes ARTICLES Dan Kerr:How We Learned More About Our Stakeholders and Their Needs — British Columbia Hansard User Survey [...]

In previous columns, I have discussed the importance of connotation and the difficulty of transcribing a speech word for word because of homophones—that is, two different words that sound the [...]

If you happened to be standing on the corner of William Street and Lonsdale Street in Melbourne where the Supreme Court building is situated, on any business day from the 1940s to 1990s, you [...]

Introduction Live subtitling through respeaking makes live events accessible to diverse audiences, such as d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Respeakers utilise automatic speech recognition (ASR) [...]

Introduction The Web Accessibility Directive of the European Union (2016) meant that authorities had to provide their web contents in an accessible way so that people with disabilities could get [...]

Introduction Reliability is one key aim in parliamentary reporting. In this article, I discuss the official video report of the Dutch Parliament from different perspectives: image manipulation [...]

Introduction The use of artificial intelligence (AI) can be deemed morally questionable in certain domains, for example due to ethical and legal concerns. While there might be understandable [...]

Introduction Like many parliamentary reporting offices worldwide, the Official Journal Division (OJD) of the Portuguese Parliament has been seeking technological solutions—specifically, exploring [...]

Introduction Hansard, a verbatim report of legislative proceedings, plays a vital role in the democratic process, ensuring transparency and accountability in government deliberations. In British [...]